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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09
THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

The TIMES was in the advanced line
Yesterday when it madeleine cable dispatch
from London the text OF its article on the
reduction of impor, duties and the effect
on commerce. at Is now nearly forty
years. says contemporary, since that
great country threw off the shackles OF a
high protective tariff on many articles
and adopted the policy of low tarlii on
few articles. Being enabled thereby TO
import without duty all the necessaries
of life, she made every shilling OF wages
90 as far as possible, and with her raw
materials free she has been able to pro
duce the cheapest manufactured goods
while paying the highest wages OF any
country but This"
1t is impossible TO deny so simple a
proposition or to prove that, admitting
English manufactures at low rates
would hurt our own when we would be
manufacturing under more favorable
conditions than other countries.
The great effort Of the Republicans
will be TO show that American labor
would suffer Well, let us see how much
Pennsylvania, the great Republican pro-
lection State, did for labor. There is not
a year that there are not strikes and
general complaint on the part of labor IN
that State. When a high tariff fayors
monopoly, as it Individually does, the
competition in labor is comparatively
killed but when the number OF factories
increases. labor is better of, for there
are a greater number of employers.
Certainly all intelligent people ought
to see the bad effects of limiting orr man
ufacturers to higher priced material than
other countries use, and forcing them on
our home market until every year or two
the home market is eluited and there Is
no market abroad to give Us an outlet.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

For the first time in the country's his
tory the Presidents annual message
Omits all reference To the many grave
public interests representing which good
citizens Of all parties agree, and is exclu-
sively devoted to an issue between par
ties - 1'ribane.
When the great Republican oracle IN
dertakes to play Pooh Bah, it can Ger
tainly pooh bah anything. Here the
President has explained the system of
extrayagant taxation TO the tune of
$40 900, 900 a year, and showed the way
to reform the wrong, and the message
excites the admiration of all patriotic
people, but the Republican organ can
only see IAN issue between parties
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

All the Northern papers, except the
partisan Republican journals, approve of
the appointment of Secretary Lamar to
the Supreme Court to I'LL the vacancy
caused by tue death OF Justice Woods.
1t cannot be denied that Mr. Lamar Is
one of the foremost characters Of this
country, and is peculiarly great man
in his wise comprehension of the new
order of things, and the political relations
of the South under it. His course has
been marked at every step by pre-eminent
ability and broad minded patriotism.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

Mr.. Basil b. Gordon, one Of the new
members of the Legislature, is expected
to make a good record, as he is a man OF
ability, who is young enough not to be
hampered by old ideas, and old enough
to know what the State wants on the
new line of progress that will be opened
as soon as the debt is settled.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09
The stern Romans.

Young Tommy, who has gone 10 work
manfully at his Latin, says he has no df-
flculty in believing that the Romans were
very stern with their children. If they
had been good TO their children, the way
folks are now" he says, they wouldn't
have had any accusatiye cases and abba
tiycs and all those things boston
transcript.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

That is a trenchant blow in the message
that strikes at the last big trick of monop-
oily, the trust" whereby manufacturers,
so generously and lavishly protected by
the tariff, proceed to make combinations
to raise the prices of the articles protect
ed and make the people pay still higher
tribute.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09
Got Shaved Every Time.

Barber 10 countryman in chair)-Ynu
don't get shaved very often, guess, sire
Countryman-Don't git shaved oftenr !
cum to town oncet month, mister, an
b gosh git shaved every time ! cumr-The
Epoch.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

The objective point for the Legislature
to keep in view is to get a settlement OF
the debt promptly with the advantage
that we have now, and, at the same time,
by getting the consent Of the creditors to
remove every iota of the charge of re-
pudiation that has done the State so
much harm.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

Secretary Endicotts report includes an
interesting description of the rev twelve
inch mortar that shows range Of five
miles.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

The Presidents message has shaken up
the Republicans worse than anything
since the defeat of Blaine, except the re-
form OF the land grsbbers.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

A visitor at q church in big northern
city, whose members are almost all rich
and aged, aud therefore conservative,
described it as the Church Of Retired
Christians.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

With respect to the transfer Of Mr.
Villas from the Posioillce 10 the Depart
ment of the Interior there is only one
opinion in the country-that the promo
ton TO functions even more complicated
and important is a deserved compliment
to his very successful discharge Of the
difficult duties of PostniasterGeneral.-
v. T. Star.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

The message rises above party lines,
and presents a common basis of patriotic
craftsmanship on which Republicans and
Democrats are bound by every considera.
ton of the public welfare and OF political
expediency to stand together Chicago
Tribune.
The Secretary of the Treasury is, Of
course in full accord with the President
in the treatment of surplus taxation, "
as he happily terms it. He shows that
for twenty-five years the Treasury has
been collecting such surplus, the total in
that time being, in round numbers, bill
lion and half, Isl, 49l ,s45,953). In 1888,
under the pressure of popular demand, a
reduction was made in taxation --Et-
change.
Colonel Mcclure thinks that the Presi-
dent has committed blunder in calling
for tariff revision instead Of fayoring the
reduction of the internal revenue taxes.
The trouble with Colonel Mcclure is that
he Is prone to look at public questions
through Pennsylvania spectacles with
pig-iron rims.-Exchangs.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

The change proposed is not simply a
matter of detail but of principle The
Democrats are in favor of Democratic
lariif-a tariff whose pr mary purpose
will be revenue, the only lawful object Of
taxation. The Republicans demand the
maintenance of protection as the central
idea of the tariI-protection regardless
of the needs of the Government Vast.
Post
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

This has been the average English
manufacturer argument for many
years, aud New York importers have re-
produced it with an aifectation of candor
" We do not want you Yankees to adopt
free trade" they have said in effect d" we
dread American competition under free
trade because you are certain 10 beat US
in the long run and deprive us Of our
own markets. 1t is for our interest 10
have the tariff remain as ii is, for Ameri
can free trade will b. the death-blOw to
English manufacturing " J. Tribune
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-09

The General Christian Conference, un-
der the auspices of the Evangelical ALI
ance, opened their sessions in Washington
Wednesday. The members have laid out
plenty of work for themselves, as they
propose to discuss measures upon which
all denominations may be brought to
unite in emergencies-the changed condi-
tions of labor and capital, and how best
to reach the n-churchgoers.-EIctaHge
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17

The Slavoufr novelfn, NJ Sacher-
Masoch, has Eseenfly give. An Interesting
lecture to . Paris audience on the Jewish
sects in Galicfa, in the course Of which he
described the Karaites, who acknowledge
only the first book Of Nose - their re-
ligious guide The Karaftes, said the
eminent Jewish author, ore the Jansen
ties Of Judaism They base their beliefs
on the love Of the divine; they are yirtu-
GUS for virtues sake. Where reason and
revelation agree, they say, we accept them
as two excellent things, but where they
disagree we must hold with revelation, for
IL reason had been sufncient revelations
would have been supernuous-
The Karaites consider that it is not al
lowed to discuss the fundamental basis
of revelation Another Of their precepts
Is: IF you cannot do that which you
would like TO do You must be willing to
do what you cam The life of the Kara
ties is very virtuous; they pray in He
brew, with bent heads. In the east they
never light a fire, and in Galicia, where
the climate Is more rigorous, they let
Christians light II for them The sect
numbers about 40, 900 in Galicia- One pc
culiarity by which they are distinguished
from all other Jews is that they consider
that commerce in goods which they them
selves have not produced to be Illicit, for
which reason they are nearly all agricul-
turists or stewards. Until lately they
were exempt from military service, but at
present they are employed in the ambu-
lances. NJ. Sacher- Masoch states, on the
authority OF q historian, that no Karaite
has been condemned in any law court in
Poland for the last four centuries-Pall
Mall Gazette
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
English Idea of Fun.

At the New club dance an entirely novel
feature contributed TO the success of a very
successful evening. Just as the dancing
was at its height some one-one Of those
individuals who escape detection in a
crowd-let fall box full Of wax matches,
or fusees, the contents of which became
thickly strewn upon the parquet- Then,
as the young people came tripping along,
''Oh, what a surpriser' Pop! crack. OF
went the matches under the gossamer
skirts of the fair dancers, emitting as they
did so a tiny flame. Loudly the Washers
laughed, for the fun was not without that
element of danger which is dear to the
heart of every Briton- Some OF the elders,
perceiving this, ordered waiter to pick
up the matches Happily there was no
accident, while the presence of Capt. Shaw
quickly restored the confidence Of those
who had been alarmed by the incident
London World.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
suRE oeAIH ON BATS.
How . Woman Solved q yexatious Prob
lem In Domestic Life.


How . Woman solved q vexatious Prob
lem In Domestic Life.
Mrs Benedict's business is that OF .
ratcatcher a new profession now fairly
opened to women and one which Ars-
Benedict at least has made lucrative
The business of rat determination Is not
strictly new, and yet Mrs. Benedict u
fairly entitled to rank as its inventor, at
least in an important sense. She has
raised il to the dignity of a profession
The problem has been how to kill the rats
without bringing unpleasant odors into
the house
Mr. Benedict has found out how TO
induce rats To die on the kitchen foOr.
Like many inventors, she Is somewhat In
debted To accident She was engaged, II
appears in the domestic manufacture OF
plaster casts of various kinds One OF her
devices was TO mix wheaton flour with her
pulverized plaster Of Paris, so that the
gluten of the flour might make the paste
less brittle One evening she had visitors
who rang the bell just she was sitting
the mixed plaster and flour for the third
time by way of mixing them Intimately,
as the chemist SAYS She had already set
a dish of water at hand. intending to make
an experimental cast at once, and when
the door bell rang she hastily removed her
apron and went to welcome her guests,
Her guests stayed until bedtime. and
when they babe her adieu. Mrs Benedict
went to bed without returning to the kit
chen.
What happened in the night was this.
A rat made his way up the legs Of the
table to the top, where he was speedily
Joined by others. The dish of -four and
plaster was easily reached, and the rats
ate freely and hastily of it, as 1t is their
custom to do. Ii was n rather dry sup
per, and water being near, each rat
turned to drink. The water drunk first
wet the plaster in the rats stomachs, and
then, III techniehal phrase, set" II; that
is to say, the plaster thus made into
paste, instantly grew hard in each rats
stomach and put an end to any exercise
of that organ The rats decided Mr..
Mallock's question: ''Is life worth Hv-
ing?" In the negative without quitting
the table The next morning thirteen OF
them lay dead in circle around the
water dish Mrs Benedict, when she
entered che kitchen for the purpose of
making her fire, saw them and acted
that is to say, she screamed and climbed
studied the scene and very soon saw the
cause. Like a wise woman, she kept her
secret and made profit of it. She under
took, for a consideration, TO clear the
premises of her neighbors of the pests.
and succeeded IL was not long before
the town was as free of this sort Of ver-
min as if the pied piper of Hamelin had
Travelled that way.-New York Star.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
when r.,-.~. Wanted to Laugh.

DIR. Talmage told me the other day that
he never suffered so much from the prop
rieties a. once when he ought to have
risen TO make the opening prayer Of q
service, but could not do it on account Of
an overpowering desire 70 laugh. He was
in . country church sitting alone on a
little platform waiting for the minute
when he should begin and gravely prepar-
ing his mind, when the door opened and a
gentleman and two ladies entered. They
were city people and they wanted that
fact known. The ladies were very ex-
pensively dressed, but the man was q
curiosity. He was appareled with the
care Of q debutante at . White House ball
His eyebrows and mustache were dyed
jet black, and his cheeks showed traces Of
powder and paint, while his shape suggested
stays. He strutted to u seat with the air
of . peacock on parade
The ladies sat down and their escort
fiourished in after them and dropped him
self between them on q bench The bench
broke. Then . stirring scene was enacted.
The gentleman had fallen through 10 the
floor and was caught between the splint-
cred ends Of the seat. He wriggled help
lessly and lost his eyeglasses and cane and
hat. The look Of misery and fright on his
face succeeding the proud dignity that
had previously sat there was too much
for DIR. TalmaGe. He wanted to get out
into . ten acre field and whOop. He could
not help laughing, and had TO put his
handkerchief mp to his face and pretend
that he had . very bad cough Rambler
in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
Missionary Work in Alaska.

The Greek church seems exactly to
meet the needs of the Innuits Esqui-
maux," said Mr.. Eliot, ''but compare
lively little progress has heen made toward
the conversion of the Indians. There has
been u mission church at Sitka ever since
1903, but the experience of the Russian
missionaries was not very different from
that of our own. The Indians become
very pious and are eager to join the
church, if they get enough tobacco and
red cloth; but when once the distribution
has been made their zeal cools of, and IL
takes an equal amount of tobacco and red
cloth to arouse their interest again the
next year. l think that the net result Of
eighty years of missionary work among
the Indians of Sitka is that they are q
little more degraded than they We're at
the beginning of the century, and this
through no fault of the missionaries.
What / mean to say Is that contact with
degraded white men has a little more
than offset tine elevating effects of the
teaching and example of the missionaries. ="
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
II Everybody Spoke the Truth.

Many havs stated with an apparent de-
gree Of honesty that if every one Lad
stopped their harmless lies and always
spoke exactly as they thought that there
would be an end to all social intercourse,
and that polite society would be relegated
to chaos. 1t is considered absolutely
necessary to pretend an intense interest in
the health or pastimes of each last new ac-
quaintance, and to hatter without the
least attempt at harmonizing our fiattery
with the facts Of the case. 1t Is possible
that it might sound a little strange at first
IL the fair, stout and somewhat aged lady
were told that IL she really wished to APP
pear youthful and attractive she would
stop lacing until she could scarcely
breathe and eating until she lost the
power of thought. There would be n GER
tain chilliness in her manner toward the
first bold experimental that essayed such
candor, but as she continued to hear 'he
same thing from every one she met, she
would conclude at last that she herself
was to blame, and by careful study of the
laws of health and earnest improvement
of her intellect, she would soon deserve
sincerest praise and laugh at her former
absurd appearance and condition.
The shocks to the self esteem of con-
ceited men would likewise be severe II
they met only with those who stead
lastly refused to treat them upon their
own estimate and insisted upon n critical
analysis Of their claims to superiority.
That humble instrument, the chestnut
gong. was feeble protest of q suffering
world against the tedious and pompous
fools who do SO much to destroy all the
pleasures of human intercourse. The art
Of telling the truth would go q great deal
further, however, than merely showing up
. few old frauds; IL would be an open
aaaapUe tn all the of business pOli-
tics and religion. When one gets in the
way Of always speaking of things exactly
a. they are, there comes to such an ex-
pansion of mind which is, after all. the
only real experience of Hfe.-Rhode
Island Journal
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
Buffers ButtouhoIe Bouuuets

1t is mystery where Gen. Butler finds
the flower that he wears in his button
hole. In Boston he always has a May
flower before anybody else has thought Of
looking for them In New York 10 is
easy enough to get posy, but when the
general sligkts from a sleeper early in the
morning with pretty combination of
flowers in the left lapel, the wonder Is
natural where he found them. He is q
great admirer of flowers, and a rare, per-
fec. blossom out OF season delights him
more than a good retainer. The dands-
lion, too, is q favorite, and he once said
that IL this wild flower were rare il would
be reckoned among the choicest of bios
soms-New York Sun
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17

We take great pleasure IN commend
ing again to the notice of our readers
he Jacksonville Price Current and Flor
tda Trade Journal, published by Chas.
w. DaCosta, under the auspices of the
Jacksonville Board of Trade. Typo
graphically it is q marvel of neatness
end beauty, while its quotations are en-
tizsly reliable and exact. 1t is q credit
- our metropolis, a valuable medium
Tor our people and we are glad to see
that it, success 10 already assured.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17

TO SUBSCRIBERS

Tn DAILY NEWS will be continued to
III suhscribers for the time paid for,
without additional charge. When they
ssnew their subscriptions they will be
required TO pay the new rate, which is
- per year instead of Is.
Mr.. E. G. Post has been appointed an
agent to visit our subscribers and solicit
Che continuation Of their patronage, and
Geh others a. may desire to become
Subscribers We have adopted the adj
vsnce pay system. 1t is best for all par
de- concerned. We trust the citizens of
Palatka will extend to THE NEWS q
prompt and liberal patronage.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
A Strange Case.

0one Of the most prominent men in
Xsogida are now drawn into a difficulty
Which must soon blaze into a scandal.
Ihs Orlando Reporter states a charge
thus, against the editor Of the Times
Union:
AT the time Mr.. Jones was depreca-
d|1g sectional issues, and attempting to
aBgny the balance of the State against
osafA Florida he was secretly confid-
- 70 Q chosen few the fact that an ar
Saneement had been agreed upon be-
tween himself and Governor Bloxham
under which Mr.. Pasco was to be drawn
cut Of the coming Senatorial race, with
tho promise of the support of the COM
hine for the Office of Governor in the
noxt campaign. Mr.. Bloxham was
thpD 10 secure the active assistance Of
rNoco and Chas. H. Jones for the posi-
tto0 a Senator. Jones was to continue
HI warfare upon Senator Call. and in
SAie he was TO be seconded by Senator
D1oxham, when that gentleman had
hem placed in the United States Senate.
Between them Cali was to be slaughter
q. and then the combine was to place
Jonao in tie Senate "a his successor.
~ revelation was made by Jones him
~. and he sought to secure the assist
anee a. other prominent men to pro-
0nAs The scheme"
Thsre ID no charge that Governor
Daoxham was . party to this infamous
6ade." But ON yesterday we have n
peompt ord clear statement from the
Ucvtda Hsrald::
s'Of course such q bargain would have
- aruos treason to The Her0lds dis
jItwssned advocacy, and to hundreds Of
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
Are and Honor.

When the frost of age whitens the
houored head, respect and veneration is
given freely, and reverence lifts the hat
end ensures attention. ''All that which
sA0ud accompany old age" flows spon-
snneously from the heart and troops Of
ffiends' stand anxious to drink wisdom
nom the weighty lessons matured by
experience. and made valuable by care
fol thought. But the hoary head on
which no honor rests-which public
opinion has not crowned with reverence.
and around which the approval of good
conscience bends no bow of promise
heightened by rays Of glory caught from
~ pest Of . life well spent-this is but
. mark for scorn--it hangs tremb-
ling over . grave where the tenderest
Asart will plant only the flowers Of OBJ
Hvion.
When the experiment of daily jour
nalism was essayed in Palatka youth
~ made . matter Of reproach. and
epother contemporary still boasts Of
:.aQ." But the youth which is like
Rps1iA, mot too old to learn" is surely
ysniseworthy-the age which has long
dnce become too wise in self-conceit to
Asow wisdom from the experience which
= - only treasury. ID far from honor
ebss. and the decreptiude which has
loag been incapable Of growth or I'M
psesemsot arousea only pity. What
tAsn shau be said Of the age to which
Aoaor = stranger-which the contempt
a al dooms to . night whose darkness
no brightness enlghtens-whose youth.
Ne tAAt Of the great Cardinal, forgot
Cd and right and country in the wor-
e11p a wickedness ON the altar Of inter
.Q1l Let the curtain fall.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17
Ordering for Two.

Hotel Waiter $40 little girD-Will you
order your breakfast, please
LITTLE Girls Mamma-Some oatmeal, I
think, waiter.
Little Girl-Mamma, the waiter spoke
to me. \ French chop, please, with
tomato sauce, English bacon, Lyonaise
potatoes, buckwheat cakes and coffee, and
let the coffee be strong and hot
Little Girls Mamma with q sigh)-Yoo
may bring me the same.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-17

Mayor Hewitt, Of New York, has APP
pointed . knight Of Labor to succeed
0n. 6haleF a. President of the Board of
Health, and politicians are excited.
he appointment loses significance, how
svr. through the Mayors explanation
tAas he did not know that the appointee
was . Knight Of Labor. though it would
have made little difference to him had
~ Known it.